A unique contribution to an emerging field, Composed Theatre explores musical strategies of organization as viable alternative means of organizing theatrical work. In addition to insightful essays by a stellar group of international contributors, this volume also includes interviews with important practitioners, shedding light on historical and theoretical aspects of composed theatre.
قائمة المحتويات
Introduction: Composed Theatre in Context – David Roesner
PART I: History and Methodology
Chapter 1: Composed Theatre: Mapping the Field – Matthias Rebstock
Chapter 2: Composition and Theatre – Roland Quitt
Chapter 3: ‘Happy New Ears’: Creating Hearing and the Hearable – Petra Maria Meyer
PART II: Processes and Practices: Work Reports and Reflections
Chapter 4: ‘It’s all part of one concern’: A ‘Keynote’ to Composition as Staging – Heiner Goebbels
Chapter 5: ‘ Theatre in small quantities’: On Composition for Speech, Sounds and Objects – Michael Hirsch
Chapter 6: … To Gather Together What Exists in a Dispersed State … – Jörg Laue
Chapter 7: From Interdisciplinary Improvisation to Integrative Composition: Working Processes at the Theater der Klänge – Jörg U. Lensing
Chapter 8: ‘ Let’s stop talking about it and just do it!’: Improvisation as the Beginning of the Compositional Process – George Rodosthenous
Chapter 9: Hearing Voices – Transcriptions of the Phonogram of a Schizophrenic: Music-theatre for Performer and Audio-visual Media – Nicholas Till
Chapter 10: Composing Theatre on a Diagonal: Metaxi ALogon, a Music-centric Performance – Demetris Zavros
PART III: Processes and Practices: Portraits and Analyses
Chapter 11: ‘Ça devient du théâtre, mais ça vient de la musique’: The Music Theatre of Georges Aperghis – Matthias Rebstock
Chapter 12: Musical Conquest and Settlement: On Ruedi Häusermann’s Theatre Work(s) – Judith Gerstenberg
Chapter 13: Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott’s Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes – Christa Brüstle
Chapter 14: Permanent Quest: The Processional Theatre of Manos Tsangaris – Jörn Peter Hiekel
PART IV: Discussion and Debate
Chapter 15: Composed Theatre – Discussion and Debate: On Terminology, Planning and Intuition, Concepts and Processes, Self-reflexivity and Communication – Edited by Matthias Rebstock and David Roesner
PART V: Discourse and Analysis
Chapter 16: ‘ It is not about labelling, it’s about understanding what we do’: Composed Theatre as Discourse – David Roesner
عن المؤلف
David Roesner is professor of theatre and music theatre at the LMU Munich. He previously worked at the universities of Hildesheim, Exeter and Kent. Recent publications include Theatre Noise: The Sound of Performance (with Lynne Kendrick, CSP, 2011), Composed Theatre: Aesthetics, Practices, Processes (with Matthias Rebstock, Intellect, 2012) and his latest monograph Musicality in Theatre: Music as Model, Method and Metaphor in Theatre-Making (Ashgate 2014). For a full list of publications and projects, see http://mhn.academia.edu/David Roesner.